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Ovid Butler And The Founding Of Butler University, Sally Childs-Helton
Ovid Butler And The Founding Of Butler University, Sally Childs-Helton
Scholarship and Professional Work
Without Ovid Butler, there would be no Butler University today. The history of the man and the university are intimately and inextricably entwined; without Ovid Butler's vision, leadership, and financial support, the university may not have come into being, or survived its early years. One hundred and sixty years after it was chartered, Butler University today is a private, not-for-profit, comprehensive university located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Butler offers more than 65 majors from six colleges: Liberal Arts and Sciences, Education, Pharmacy, Business, Fine Arts, and Communication. The unofficial fall semester 2010 enrollment is 4,051 full-time undergraduates and 4,575 total students …
The Influence Of Rivers On The History Of Indiana, Ralph L. Bailey
The Influence Of Rivers On The History Of Indiana, Ralph L. Bailey
Graduate Thesis Collection
This study deals with the influence of rivers on the history of Indiana. It is difficult for us to visualize that some of the small streams that we cross many times with hardly a glance, were once the most important link in a vast chain of commerce. The early settler depended on these streams to get his surplus products to market. A glance at a road map of Indiana will reveal the importance that the early settler assigned to rivers and streams. Can you find any city or town of any size that is not located near a stream of …
Conrad Baker, Former Governor Of Indiana, Arnold Ernst R. Muelller
Conrad Baker, Former Governor Of Indiana, Arnold Ernst R. Muelller
Graduate Thesis Collection
This thesis was assigned by the Department of German principally to learn through the study of the German newspapers of the day what influence the German-American population of Indiana might have had upon the election of Governor Conrad baker and also upon his whole administration as such; since Governor Baker was of German descent and the act, August 16, 1859, which provided when the German language should be taught in the common schools, also took effect when Baker was Governor of Indiana.